British Prime Minister Theresa May and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are criss-crossing the African continent arguing that there are links between economic growth and long-term security in Africa to stem immigration which has become a political football in Europe and severely weakened Merkel's position...

Ramaphosa sought to re-assure investors and the British Prime Minister Theresa May that the ANC's support for a parliamentary resolution by Malema's EFF to amend the constitution to allow EWC would not be allowed to damage the economy...

The latest leg of British Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox's African charm offensive found itself overshadowed when his colleague International Development Secretary Priti Patel was summoned home from Kampala by Prime Minister Theresa May who forced her to resign from the cabinet...

Since her appointment by Prime Minister Theresa May in July 2016 Patel has made much of her plans to cut aid which are popular in the governing Conservative party and spend more on encouraging and subsidising private companies in developing economies...

The United Kingdom's shock election result on 8 June which deprived Prime Minister Theresa May of her governing majority is likely to alter radically her Conservative government's negotiating position on leaving the European Union...

Many heard Farmajo promise to defeat the Islamist insurgents of Al Shabaab in two years including United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May and her Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson; May's Turkish counterpart Binali Yildirim head of the ruling Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (Justice and Development Party); United States Defense Secretary James Mattis; Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta; Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni; Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn of Ethiopia and Chad's Moussa Faki Mahamat the new African Union Chairperson (AC Vol 58 No 4 MPs reject foreigners' choice & Vol 58 No 3 The scramble for the chair)...

Conservative MP James Duddridge who was the UK's Minister for Africa from 2014 to 2016 before being sacked by new Premier Theresa May is among those hoping to ride on the bandwagon joining Brand Communications a UK public affairs firm 'Building Iconic Brands for Africa' in January as an advisor...